Brick Edging for Your Garden: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

Summary:  Brick edging is a great way to streamline the look of your flower garden and is a great project for you to undertake.  Follow this simple guide to learn how to set up your own  brick edging.

If you are starting to enjoy gardening, then you’re most probably also starting to be familiar with a common problem of shrubs spilling out into the lawn area and ruining the streamlined appearance of your garden. Installing stone landscape edging along the garden is a great way to keep your lawn looking neat and tidy and to have a solid demarcation line for your grass and your flowering plants. Using brick edging is the most ideal option because bricks come in a uniform size – this makes them so much easier to set down, so they look instantly neat and beautiful without much effort. Although this task requires some elbow grease, as well as a good eye, you can carry out the entire procedure on your own. All you need to do is to follow this simple guide:

Brick Edging Guide

Materials:

- Long marking material (such as tape or string)
- Landscape Paint (these can be bought at many gardening shops)
- Shovel and trowel (for digging the bed)
- Garden Bricks (the colors and size will be based on your preference)
- Bedding Material (sand or cement)

Procedure:

1. Mark Your Territory – Indicate the area where you will be laying the bricks. Ideally you should mark a line that is a little beyond where the shrubs actually meet the lawn. Use measuring tape, or any good long material like a string or even masking tape. Then, use a spray can of landscape paint to mark along the line – this makes sure that your line will not go awry during construction.

2. Get Digging – First clear the area around the line from grass, turf, or sods. Also, it might be a good idea to transfer sprinklers, and to check whether the brick edging would run above some pipes. If this is the case you can readjust the path of the edging (so that if you would need repairs, you would not have to remove the bricks and destroy the constructed brick edging). Then, once the ground has been prepared, lay a layer of trenching material which will hold the bricks in place. Soft yellow sand and gravel are examples of good options. Tightly pack the material along the path for the bricks.

3. Lay Down The Bricks – if the path and the bedding for the bricks have been accomplished scrupulously, laying down the actual bricks for the edging should not be a problem. Align the bricks properly and use a brick saw to trim bricks for edges or corners. Once all the bricks have been laid down, brushing in some coarse sand within cracks, or running a thin layer of cement along the bricks can keep your brick edging stable and beneficial.